LAKE COUNTY, FLA. – A Lake County deputy shot and killed a man in Clermont early Saturday, according to the Sheriff’s Office. Deputies were called to the Via Roma Circle area at 12:16 a.m. about a suspicious person. “The individual was reported to have been standing in the roadway yelling at passing vehicles before approaching…
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Police investigating shooting that injured two
LAKE COUNTY, FLA. – Leesburg police are investigating a shooting Saturday that injured two people, one critically. Police were called to the 2300 block of Sennett drive at 5 p.m., where they found one person critically injured in the driver’s seat and a passenger who was also injured. Police have not identified the victims,…
Couple convicted of sex crimes against children
LAKE COUNTY, FLA. – The State Attorney’s Office this week scored a victory over a couple charged with numerous sex crimes against two children. Richard Hutcheson, 38, was convicted and sentenced to three life terms without the possibility of parole, and his 41-year-old wife, Brittany, to five years’ probation for each of three felony charges….
Prosecutors charge couple with murder in 10-year-old’s death
LAKE COUNTY, FLA. – The State Attorney’s Office has upgraded charges against a couple charged with torturing a 10-year-old to death to second-degree murder. The charges were boosted Monday against Andre Walker and Kimberley Mills, Xavier’s mother. They are also charged with aggravated child abuse, one of the original charges, along with neglect and tampering…
Police: Child who suffered ‘unimaginable abuse’ dies
LAKE COUNTY, FLA. – The 10-year-old boy who was the victim of what police called “unimaginable abuse and neglect,” has died, according to Tavares Police. “This innocent child’s life was marked by unspeakable suffering, and his loss has deeply shaken our community, and everyone involved in this case,” said Detective Courtney Sullivan in a statement released…
second man arrested in Leesburg murder
LAKE COUNTY – Cameras don’t blink so they can help catch murder suspects. Police on Tuesday arrested and charged a second suspect in the murder of a man on July 8. That’s the day officers were called to the 2200 block of Aitkin Loop in Leesburg, where they found James Jordan Jr., 20, lying on…
Man on probation charged in fatal crash
LAKE COUNTY, FLA. – A man with a history of drug arrests and driving without a license was arrested Tuesday on a warrant and charged with vehicular homicide and violating probation. Graedonn Humphrey, 33, was in a car that crashed into a SUV driven by Donald U. Jass on Dec. 3, 2023 on Plantation Boulevard…
Couple sentenced to 13 years in prison for starving their baby
LAKE COUNTY – A couple arrested for starving their baby to death in what police called a “deplorable,” filthy home was sentenced to 13 years in prison Monday. Margaret Lehman, 27, and 30-year-old Mark Edward Brittian Jr. were arrested in September 2021 on aggravated manslaughter charges in the death of their 11-month-old daughter, Marcelyn Brittian….
“Julie Doe,” who had been a man, identified by DNA
LAKE COUNTY, FLA. – Authorities have identified “Julie Doe,” whose body was discovered in a heavily wooded area in 1988 through a genealogy DNA search. The case baffled investigators until 2015 until DNA revealed that “Julie Doe” was transitioning from a man to become Pamela Leigh Walton. The body had been 30 feet off County…
Man sentenced to 45 years in gas station murder
Lake County, FLA. — One of three suspects in the shooting death of an 87-year-old man at a gas station has pleaded no contest and was sentenced to 45 years in prison. Kenneth D. Bailey, 22 entered the plea to second-degree Murder last week for the 2024 attack of Clarence Harold Ervin who was sitting…